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- From: karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
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- Subject: Re: KH-11 pictures -
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.040700.2465@qualcomm.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 04:07:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.070508.12914@qualcomm.com> <Ngy8wB2w164w@k5qwb.lonestar.org>
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- In article <Ngy8wB2w164w@k5qwb.lonestar.org> lrk@k5qwb.lonestar.org (Mr. Lyn R. Kennedy) writes:
- >It seems it would be more feasable to take several pictures by the same
- >satellite at slightly different locations and combine them
- >electronically. I'm not sure I understand the limits of this but I've
- >been led to beleive that it works. A similar method is being used with
- >radio-telescopes, recording the information simultaneously at several
- >sites and then combining the data to get better resolution.
-
- This is called VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry). You make
- *simultaneous* high speed recordings of a single source at widely
- spaced sites. The recordings must preserve the amplitude *and phase*
- of the incident EM radiation, and they must be very precisely
- timestamped (to allow accurate alignment when the signals are
- combined). Although this is practical (although tricky) at radio
- frequencies, I *seriously* doubt the technology is in hand to do it at
- optical frequencies on a satellite. I don't think there are any A/D
- converters yet that can sample at the Nyquist rate for green light,
- for example.
-
- Phil
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